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The Oscar-winning actress shared her traumatic experience as she addressed the Los Angeles Women's March. Portman in one of her first film roles, in the 1996 hit Mars Attacks. Portman said: 'Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews'. She built a reputation that stressed how "bookish and serious" she was, which resulted in her earning a reputation for being "prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious".

The Russian foreign ministry said it was concerned and urged Turkey to show restraint. Earlier this week, the Turkish government announced the offensive into Kurdish-held areas in northern Syria, starting with Afrin, after reports that the United States plans to create a 30,000-strong border army predominantly made up of Kurdish militias.

The 7-member delegation began its 2-day visit on Sunday. South Koreans were wowed by a North Korean girl band singer who crossed the heavily fortified border on Sunday to inspect preparations for her performance in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, dressed in a way that drew a comparison to US first lady Melania Trump.

Marches were scheduled to take place in Las Vegas, Seattle, Miami, Phoenix and many other cities across the country and around the world. Organizers of a New York City rally and march for women's rights say tens of thousands of people will take to the streets on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration.

Turkish jets pounded Kurdish militia targets Saturday in Afrin, which is under the control of the People's Protection Units - the largely Kurdish militia known as the YPG that Turkey regards as a terror group. The YPG has been a key part of the battle against Islamic State in Syria, and has been supported by the US. It was not immediately possible to reach Russian officials.

But analysts fear a retaliatory strike by North Korea - especially a nuclear one - could endanger millions of South Koreans and USA military personnel stationed in the region. Japan has reportedly made a decision to enhance its support and cooperation for developing countries in Africa and Asia which have diplomatic relations with North Korea.

The Mexican government responded to President Donald Trump about his claim that Mexico will pay for the wall and is the most insecure country in the world. But he noted that immigration is an important issue for the president. "We need a wall for the safety of our country. I have confidence we'll pass this".

Q Did those earlier shutdowns have the same affect as what might happen this month? That translated into less disposable income for the region as a whole, leaving restaurants, shopping malls and other businesses with lower profits and sending fewer tax dollars into local government coffers for schools and other services.

The killings previous year and Israel's hero's welcome for Moyal led to a rift with Jordan that was only patched up last week, when Israel expressed regret over the killings and agreed to pay compensation. "The Israeli authorities will continue reviewing the materials regarding the July 2017 incident and anticipate making a decision in the coming weeks", read the statement by a spokesman from Israeli Prime Minister's Office.

The YPG, linked to Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has been a key USA ally in the war against the Islamic State group, helping to drive the jihadists from swathes of Syrian territory including their stronghold Raqa. As early as Friday, thousands of FSA fighters have already been mobilised in Turkey's Hatay province and Syrian locations east of Afrin. But the Syrian Kurdish YPG said that civilian areas were also hit, including Afrin's city centre.

The document also listed North Korea among the Pentagon's priorities, citing the need to focus U.S. missile defences against the threat from Pyongyang, which beyond its nuclear weapons has also amassed an arsenal of biological, chemical, and conventional arms.

In October 2014, he tweeted: "Can you believe that with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf". President Trump got the last laugh with the media once again after notching a flawless score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA ), a cognitive test that screens for memory loss or early dementia .

Bracamontes made headlines on Wednesday after shouting in the courtroom that he killed cops, didn't regret it, and wanted to kill more. "It's pure evil", the ad says. Democrats want a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which Trump announced in September he would be ending March 5. Democrats want any deal to protect young immigrants - known as "Dreamers" - who were brought to the United States by their parents from being deported.

The president denied making those remarks, and most of the Republican lawmakers in the room either said they didn't hear the reported words or didn't remember them. The blatantly racist comments made by President Trump during a private meeting with lawmakers on Thursday, January 11 - confirmed on Friday, Jan 12 by Democratic Senator Richard Durbin of IL - were all too believable.

Brace yourselves for some more slippery weather. Drivers in those areas were being warned of likely icy roads Monday evening, as well as the possible for power outages. The forecast is for an overnight low of -13 Celsius. While Environment Canada is forecasting the threat of freezing rain will be especially felt in northern York Region, it's expected there will be patchy freezing rain throughout the region.

A NSW Ambulance spokesman told AAP they received a call with reports of multiple injuries after the train hit the buffer stop located at the end of the line. One caller to local radio who saw the crash said there was an "almighty bang". "It's all chaos here", another caller, Steve, told the station. Sydney Trains boss Howard Collins said: "This is a most unusual incident" and that most of the injuries are "bumps and bruises".

New information gathered through investigations ruled out the previously held notion of murder-suicide, which was thought to be the reason for the death of the power couple, CBC News reported. The Sherman's North York home is still blocked off by Toronto police. The couple's four grown-up youngsters have scrutinized that hypothesis, notwithstanding, and tapped private agents to investigate the passings.

Party members will now have the final say over Bolton's future at a special meeting within the next four weeks. Bolton has refused to step aside, which means the party will have to conduct a postal ballot of its entire membership, one the financially-straitened party can ill afford to bear.

Greece regards "Macedonia" as a term referring only to one of its regions and to the ancient Kingdom of Macedonia, and insists on the use of another name for it northern neighbor's name. The 1992 rally was backed by the Greek Orthodox Church which, however, distanced itself from Sunday's demonstration, as a whole. Macedonia is known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) at the United Nations, although the Security Council acknowledged this was a provisional name when it agreed ...

Modi said India's engagement with the outside world has become "truly and effectively multi-dimensional" in recent years. "It is India's great success that this was not just a change of one currency with another, but the way country's federal structure, it's governance, it's common man, RBI's role...